Mrs. Mhm. Okay, it's 7:08. I call tonight's council meeting to order. Roll call. Bennett here. Leosa here. Millie here. Sasso here. Skiara
here. WKI Matthews here. Please rise and join us in the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by the annual schedule of regular meetings. Therefore adopted and posted on the public bulletin board at the municipal building emailed to the Herald news the record in the Gazette and all persons who requested the
mailing of such since November 19, 2024. Approval of the minutes. Have approval of the minutes for the meeting of July 23rd, 2025. So moved. Second. Motion by Scar. Second by Leosa. Any discussion? Roll call.
Skiara, yes. Sasso, absain. Millie, yes. Leosa, yes. Bennett, yes. Matthews, yes. Motion carries. Public comment. Now open the meeting to the public. If anyone desires to be
heard on uh public agenda items, come forward to the microphone. State your name. Seeing no one, I entertain a motion to close public portion of the meeting. So move. Motion by Bennett. Second. Second by Skier. All in favor? I.
Motion carries. Adoption of ordinances. We have ordinance number 2371-25. An ordinance to further amend and supplement chapter 505 vehicles and traffic. Article 2 traffic regulations. Section 505-16 trucks over certain weights excluded so
as to modify the definitions contained therein. and section 505-65A schedule 12 so as to add additional locations thereafter. I'll now open the meeting to the public. If anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance, please raise your hand and microphone.
Uh come forward to the microphone and state your name. Seeing no one, I entertain a motion the public hearing on this ordinance be closed and that it be resolved this ordinance was posted on the bulletin board on which public notices are customarily posted, published in the record and made available on the burough
website and available to the public. Now therefore, be it resolved this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law. Have a motion. So moved. Sasso second. Motion by Bennett, second by Sasso. Any discussion?
Roll call. Bennett, yes. Leosa, yes. Millie, yes. Sasso, yes. Skiara, yes. Matthews, yes. Motion carries. Ordinance number 2372-25. An ordinance to further amend and
supplement chapter 505 vehicles and traffic article one general provisions section 505-3 violations and penalties and various additional sections noted here under so as to set forth penalties for certain violations under said chapter.
I'll now open the meeting to the public. If anyone desires regard to be heard regarding this ordinance, raise your hand, come forward to the microphone, state your name. Anyone wish to be heard? Seeing none, I entertain a motion that the public hearing on this ordinance be closed and that be resolved this
ordinance was posted on the bulletin board in which public notices are customarily posted published in the record and made available on the burough website and available to the public. Now therefore be resolved this ordinance be adopted and the clerk is authorized to advertise the same according to law. Have a motion. Motion by Bennett.
Second second by me. Any discussion? Roll call. Bennett Leosa. Yes. Millie, yes. Sasso, yes. Skiara, yes. Waki,
I'm sorry. Matthews, yes. Motion carries. Just say yes. Bruce, so easy. Yes. I apologize, Bennett. She's That was a yes. Motion carries.
Zening. Ordinance number 2373-25. I have an ordinance to amend and supplement chapter uh the code of the bureau of Horththornne chapter 540 zoning to create section 540-163J drive-through restaurants. I now open a meeting to the public. If anyone desires
to be heard regarding this ordinance, please raise your hand to be recognized and come forward to the microphone. State your name. For those following at home, this is for a piece of the code that fell out after we rewrote it to basically allow the uh drive-through coffee establishments
I have a motion. So moved. Motion by Millie. Second by Skier. Any discussion? Roll call. Bennett. Yes. Leosa. Yes. Mey. Yes. Sasso.
Yes. Skiara? Yes. Matthews? Yes. Motion carries. Ordinance number 2374-25. an ordinance to further amend and supplement chapter 505 article 2 section 505-6
one-way streets schedule 505-55 so as to add there to certain additional locations I'll now open a meeting to the public if anyone desires to be heard regarding this ordinance come forward to the microphone state your name this is a temporary oneway on North 8th going into
Prospect Park it's temporary it's a three-month trial period trial see how it works See how it works. Works good. Okay. We still have to then come back and make it permanent. Okay.
Have a motion. So move. Second. Motion by Scar. Second by Leosa. Any discussion? Uh what street like they coming back, mayor? I'm sorry. What street is coming is what street is coming back into into town? What street?
Uh North 7th, I believe. Okay. Because North 8th is going all the way going to to Hen Avenue. Okay. One way. So into Prospect Park and to uh Hilden Avenue. Okay. Seven says one street down. Okay.
You can't come back, Dom. Once you go once you leave, you can't come back, right? Got to do a big circle. Roll call. Skiara? Yes. Sasso? Yes. Me? Yes. Leosa? Yes. Bennett? Yes. Matthews? Yes. Motion carries.
Old business. Mike, we'll start your way. Um, yes. Mayor, do we have any update on the no left turn during the during hours of uh 6 and 9 and 36? Uh, if there's status from the police department.
Yes, I have it. You be report. I have it in my report. All right. If I have any questions, I'll ask you later. But thank you. You're welcome. Reena, nothing for old business. Bruce. Uh yeah, just Mayor, did you ever
ask uh Roswell Engineering about uh the possibility of using ground penetrating radar on the pool to locate leaks? Yes. And what did they say? They said it sounds good. They were going to research it a little bit. Excellent. Good. Mission accomplished.
Yeah. Ary. Well, my question was uh asked by Councilman Sherah, but I just want to add to it that we had previously discussed having a town hall meeting with reference to that topic. Can we just plug that into our future conversations with reference to the no
left turns and traffic diversions to include our residents in our data? It's going to affect our residents. So, if we're going to do something permanently, there's a lot of residents that are still unaware and affected. So, I think um
I would like to um move forward the town hall meeting. I'll let's talk after the meeting and uh we'll we'll see exactly what you want. Thank you, sir. I'm okay. Frank, how about new business, Dominic? I'm okay. Marie, I'm good. Thank you.
Bruce, no. Reena. Um yes, I just want to um thank the Burrow of Horththornne and the water department for uh providing the water service to our neighboring towns and um just having that ability to have that
connection as well as the cooperation of D. I did speak to Bill on Monday and I was asking about that. So it sounds like D was being cooperative and um to our needs and helping us. So, I know Eric, you'll talk more about that later on,
but just want to recognize the Hawthorne Department and our new uh superintendent Dave Mayor and um Bill and Eric for the work that we've done really quickly to uh help our neighbors. And I know the local uh I think the ambulance is asking
for donations for water too for our neighbors. So, just want to thank you and you know that's what we're doing is a partnership between the towns with our water. Thanks. Blake. Uh, I like to ditto uh Councilman
Councilwoman Leos's comments. Um, you know, on social media there is a big uprising about Hawland hasn't done anything and it's not true. And Eric, you going to plan on talking about that later on? Good. Because I I think the public needs to hear some of the things that Hawland's doing for our local other
neighboring communities. We've done a lot council and Eric's going to talk about that. That'd be great. Thank you. Well, I have nothing after that. Turn to administrative agenda presented by Mayor Lane. Thank you, Mr. President.
The streetscape is almost completed. This latest phase went from the library up to Wbertton Avenue on the east side and from Jefferson Street to Warren Avenue on the west side. National Night. testing. Okay, National Night Out was
excellent this year and I want to thank all of our residents, parents, and youngsters for visiting this event. Our first responders are the best of the best. And I want to thank everyone from our police department, fire department, EMS, and our ladies auxiliary for always
coming out and being so encourage engaging with our public. With the continued cooperation of the Burrow of North Halen, I would like to mention that police chief Darby of North Halen was behind a truck today
that was traveling from North Halen into Horththornne and the truck decided to turn down Fairview Avenue. Chief Darby, knowing our weight limit on Fair View Avenue, pulled over the vehicle and dispatched our police department, who arrived on the scene and wrote summones.
This is cooperation at its best. From January 1st through yesterday, August 12th, there have been issued 64 summones for truck weight limit on Fair View Avenue. For the same time period, we have issued
244 summones issued for no left turn restrictions on North Wong Drive. Horththornne Hometown Hero Banners program has launched. If you would like to purchase a banner, please see our website. The last day to submit the
application is August 29th. I am working with the street lights and public service uh public PSEG, changing them to a greater brightness on Grand View A and Fair View. Please consider donating to Horththornne Day. Thanks to every everyone's contribute
contributions, Hawthorne Day can happen. By now, you should have received your tax bill. The grace period was extended to April 3rd, I'm sorry, September 3rd. If you do not pay by September 3rd, interest will be charged back to August 1st.
Vendors space is is filling up quickly. So, if you are planning to be part of the day, please call Ellen at 973-4271168 or get your form into her as soon as possible. Our 911 service will take place on Thursday, September 11th at
6:30 p.m. This year's keynote speaker is Assemblyman Al Baris from the 40th district. The signs for North Halen, I'm sorry, the signs for North 8th Street have been ordered. The ambulance corp is holding a fish and chip fundraiser, Tastefully British, on Thursday,
September 4th. I have tickets in my office if anyone needs them, and it is a drive-thru. That completes my report and I'll turn it over to our attorney, Michael Pasqual. Thank you, mayor. Uh, let me report on a couple things. One thing on the agenda tonight, which I want to clarify for
members of the council and also for those who are watching at home, uh, R1 134-25 is a boundary agreement with, uh, our neighbors, uh, the Trillings who own property next to our Gothal Hill Road
pump station. Um, I think I may have explained this before, but there is an historic boundary dispute between our property and theirs. Both ser both parties have produced surveys going back to actually the the premier surveyor of
the area. Allen Rig, Bruce Rigg's father, was one of the well-known surveyors of his time. He surveyed one major development in the area. Paul Schilling, another well-known figure in the area, surveyed another major
development, but the two surveys had a difference between them. So that there's a 5-ft overlap between the two surveys. So that one survey overlaps the other by a small amount. All the major surveyors
followed Cresenzo, Hyman, all the people whose names show up in surveys throughout the town. And it's something that happens because old surveys were often taken off of rock walls, trees,
brooks that move from place to place as water will move. And so because of the overlap and because of this issue, we've created a boundary agreement that will fix the boundary once and for all between our two properties. As part of
that and as part of what we intend to do, uh because we put some very significant improvements there to combat PAS, uh we do owe them some screening and so we do intend to put some significant screening there because
frankly they bought property near a small wellhouse and now they're looking at a much different view from their window. So R1 134-25 is recommended to you as the correction of a long-standing
problem and also being good neighbors with our neighbors. Uh so both sides will benefit from this. Uh I also want to speak Bruce and I spoke last night and he asked me to address this and I do want to do so. lead-based paint
inspections. Letters went out and they went out on burrow letterhead for good reason because the burrow is actually responsible to ensuring that a program is in place. And as Eric and I spoke earlier today, if you got a letter from
Lou Environmental, who's our contractor, you would throw it out like you would for gutter guards and waterline protection and the like. But this is actually a required inspection imposed by the state of New Jersey and uh
there's nothing we can do about it because we are required to follow up with this. Every residential property that is in fact a rental property, one family, two family, other than multifamilies that are subject to DCA
regulation are obligated to comply with the law. There's a couple of property types that are exempt. Properties that were constructed in 1978 or later are exempt because lead was out of paint by that
point. Properties that uh again are DCA registered are exempt or if a property has a certified lead as opposed to lead safe certification then you are exempt. Lead safe lasts two
years. Lead free lasts a lifetime once you are certified to be lead free. But here's the difference. Lead safe means that there's no chipping. You may have lead paint in your house, but lead paint's an a danger only if it's chipping. Uh it can fall off in flakes
that a child could eat, something like that. It's ingested, not inhaled as a dangerous product. So again, or substance if you have a lead safe certification, it's only good for a couple of years, but it says that
there's no harmful lead flaking in your house. Lead free means even if you painted six layers of paint over your original lead paint, there's no lead. That's a much higher standard, a much
different testing, and much more likely to uncover lead paint. So, not everybody will opt to do the lead free versus lead safe. Either way, if you rent your property, you are obligated to comply with this law. low environmental will
come and the charge is not very significant and you can opt to do the lead safe testing or the lead free testing but one way or another all rental properties do have to comply. So again uh I just wanted the residents to
know this was not our idea. Uh there is not incident in this community of lead being ingested through drinking water through paint or anywhere else. But we have paid millions for lead pipes, lead
paint, galvanized pipes and all kinds of things uh that the state has imposed upon us. But again we know our residents will comply. Last part of my report. This Sunday is our last concert at the band shell. We have had a remarkable
season because the weather has been great. Uh we are hoping this Sunday continues. We have a Mottown group, Filet of Soul. S O L as opposed to S O L E. And uh they're fantastic. A big band.
They do a lot of Mottown hits. The next week is movie night. We have a Lego series movie. I cannot announce the title yet. It's a secret. It will be a Lego movie and we will be
building Legos before the movie. I will have my giant buckets of Legos there. We had it last year as well. And all the kids are invited to come 6:30, 7:00, start building Legos. When it gets dark, we'll show the movie. Stay tuned for the
big announcement. I would only suggest look to the sky. And that's all I'm going to say. That concludes my report. Lego plane. Thank you, Michael. And now I'll turn it over to our engineer, Joe Burn. Thank you, mayor. Uh the 2024 25 road
program that uh covers uh 4th AB, Ethel, Annette, Frederick, Florence 13th, Tonia, Greenwood, Woodland, Highest, uh McKinley, and Garfield. Uh the contractor will be starting construction next week and will be providing a
detailed construction schedule by Thursday and notices will be sent to the affected residents uh prior to construction beginning. Uh the contractor has been previously made aware of the completion date uh stipulated by the contract and will be
held to it. uh the 2425 local aid uh project that covers uh Hawthorne Aav, Westervelt, North Wong, Grand View. Uh construction is set to begin this week. Um they'll be starting with uh concrete
work um along Hawthorne Avenue tomorrow with the goal of completing work near Lincoln Middle School prior to beginning of the school year. Notices have been sent out to residents along the affected areas of Hawthorne Avenue. Uh the Lafayette Streetscape, as uh
previously stated by the mayor, the work on that is nearly complete. At this point, the uh contractor and his electrician are coordinating with PSENG on service installations and inspections of the same and uh work will be finalized on the project once that's
been completed. Uh clearing and cleanup of Grand Avenue is underway and a street sweeper is set to come by tomorrow morning. Uh Grand Avenue will be ready for the car show this weekend. Uh Wagro Fields 2 and three. The bleacher improvements.
Um the bleachers are will be uh assembled starting this week and should be completed by sometime next week with the exception of one bleacher near near field 3 that needed to be revised due to a layout revision. uh delivery of the same is expected in the first week of
September where it will then immediately be assembled on site. Uh the Hawthorne hockey rink improvements um the curb associated with the hockey rink uh was deteriorated to a greater extent than we expected. Uh the project originally
planned for as much of the curb to be salvaged as possible. Um, so we've gone back to downs and are currently renegotiating the unit price of the uh curb repairs. Um, we're adjusting to uh crack sealing of the joints as opposed
to uh asphalt uh infrared uh which should save a lot of money. Um and we'll be uh providing a reduction in cost on that line item. So, but we're expecting a word back from the contractor within the next day or so.
and the uh galvanized water service line replacement phase three project. Uh the service line replacement for Lincoln Middle School occurred last week and the service line for St. Anthony School uh is set to be completed next week. And that concludes my report, Mayor.
Thank you, Joe. And now I'll turn it over to our administrator, Eric Marrow, for his short report. Uh actually, I want to apologize in advance for what will be a rather lengthy report tonight. Uh since I don't have many more opportunities to do this,
I'm taking full advantage. Uh if anyone has visited our website recently recently and if you haven't, you should. You will immediately notice some major changes. In addition to updated visuals and improved site navigation, new features include there
will be a chat but a chatbot which will greet the visitor on the homepage and offer assistance finding whatever a person might be looking for. There's an array of buttons that appears on the homepage that will take a visitor directly to commonly accessed pages.
One of these buttons is a report a concern button which takes a visitor to a portal to report a ver variety of types of issues that will be directly and automatically sent to the correct department for resolution. This allows a visitor to report concerns
at any time of day or night without having to wait to call the office during business hours. There's a notify me function which allows users to subscribe to get notifications when selected items of the website are updated. And finally,
there's a Google translate feature which allows a visitor to translate all the text on the website almost instantaneously from English to over a 100 different languages. Although there was assistance by all of our various departments, most of the work on this update came from a
committee of three. Burough clerk Lori Fernandez, Councilwoman Annie Sasso, and website coordinator Lisa Sloopmaker. They did a wonderful job. Uh, one of Lisa's ongoing task is to keep our website's front page news feed full of
information about happenings in town in our in our local government and throughout town. Um, just a a comment on the on what Michael reported regarding the lead. If people were wondering why they got a letter as a landlord when they may not
be a landlord, there is no comprehensive list that we have of all landlords. So we use our where we have registered landlords but those are only for non res people who are not resident on the site. We used um cases where the address
mailing address is different from the um property address and we gave all two family houses. In some cases these people and I know at least one of them is sitting up on the deis are not actually landlords and and if that's the
case just call Lou environmental. They've dealt with this in other towns, you know, that there's an easy fix, but they're the ones that are handling it, handling it. You don't need to call the the burrow for that. Um,
as reported earlier and and to the council via email and to the external public via Nexo messages, the bureau is providing water through emergency interconnections to the PG Valley Water Commission in Prospect Park and to the Manchester Utilities Authority in North
Halen to make up for at least a small portion of the water that's not available to them due to the major um PVWC water main break in Patterson last Friday. Um, we're asking our residents to curtail outdoor watering for the
duration of this emergency so that our water utility has water it can share. Um, Hawthorne has followed Dmandated procedures to ensure that Hawthorne's water will not be contaminated by water from th these that are now these now connected systems which are under a boil
water advisory. We uh we take our you know our water quality seriously. Um, but we also want to help our neighbors. And although the PVWC has stopped the leaking from the water
main break, it's going to take time before normal water services restored and particularly to North Halen and Prospect Park. So, if people have read the news or heard the news and said, "Oh, the problem is solved. We don't need to conserve on water." Yes, we are
still asking that people do that. It's voluntary. We we expect Hawthorne residents to respond as they always do to uh to needs and so we urge our residents to continue to cooperate to help our neighbors by curtailment of
outdoor water usage. Uh while we're on the topic of water, we have an issue with our main uh water man running up Gothul Road. I'd like to schedule a meeting with the public works committee, preferably next week, to discuss how to move forward. We may need formal action from the council at the
September 3rd meeting. And while we're on the topic of water, you'll see on tonight's agenda resolution R135 with authorizes which authorizes a shared service agreement with Ridgewood to sell them water for a period of 10 years. Um to the council, I
had provided a fairly lengthy memo early last week explaining our priorities during the negotiations and resulting provisions in the agreement. This water sale will produce a reliable revenue stream for the water utility that will help pay our debt service on recent and
future capital projects. The most notable of which of course is our POS treatment system. Uh and finally leaving the topic of water you'll see listed on the agenda resolution R143 for which a memo of explanation was
distributed yesterday and the resolution itself is on the day tonight. This is for a contract for police scheduling software and management of outside work by police officers. As explained in the memo, we did a request for proposals using a state approved competitive
contracting process where factors beyond price are used in determining the best vendor. Uh the bureau will pay a small annual fee of $3,000 for the software and the vendor will manage the process with contractors or developers who need the services of police officers
collecting money from the contractor or developer scheduling the officers and providing the money for us to pay the officers and for which they will collect the fee from the contractor or de developer as their compensation so as not to charge that extra fee. In
certain cases, we will retain management of outside work by our police officers for burough projects for individual homeowners and small businesses in town and for nonprofits. For this contract, we see two proposals. Based on scoring of the proposals by a
committee, I am recommending award to Visual Computer Solutions Incorporated. Also on your agenda is resolution R133 which authorizes a land lease for AT&T adjacent to the monopole here at the municipal building. Uh unfortunately
Crown Castle owns the pole itself and received the big bucks for lease of antenna space on the actual tower. Uh at next meeting I will be recommending the award of an expanded lease for antenna space on the long view tank. I had hoped that this would fill the remaining
available space upon the top of that tank. It turns out though that one of our tenants for the past 10 years has chosen not to re renew. I regret that I will unlikely be able to replace that tenant to fill the that antenna space before I retire, but there's always a
chance. Um uh I'm working with arborist Kevin Alberta and the Hawthorne Shade Tree Commission on a bid package for the fall tree planting. Um, and as mentioned at our previous meeting, Jen Skellyy and I are working with our insurance break broker on the renewal of our property
liability and workers comp insurance for 2026. Regarding our health benefits insurance, we're still awaiting the prescription claims experienced from the state, which so we can which we can use to market our um, health insurance uh, to try to cut
back on the increase we would otherwise experience experience next year. Uh, Director of Revenue and Finance Lorie Foley is preparing to issue bond anticipation notes as short-term financing for various capital projects prior to issuing issuing bonds and the
the next bond sale is not likely to occur until 2029. Uh within the next couple weeks, PSENG will begin a gas line project here in town co covering most of the streets within the area uh bounded roughly by
Lincoln Avenue, Wagar Road, uh the NYSNW Railroad, and Diamond Bridge Avenue. Uh we'll have a resolution on the next agenda authoring authorizing Boswell to oversee that work, try to avoid some of the problems we've experienced uh in
with PSENG work in earlier years. Uh the cost of this uh um contract um PSNG will have to agree to pay as a condition of their road opening permit. Notices will be given to individual homeowners and
we'll coordinate with Smith Sunday um where they will be paving a small portion of Hawthorne Avenue where PSEG will be working. And I think I'll wrap up here since I see the council president getting his hook out. So thank you very much. That concludes my report.
Thank you, Eric. Joe, just one item. [Music] One item. One item regarding the roller rink. Uh, we have to have the job done by the end of August. So, I would want you to give Boswell, not Boswell, I want
you to give DS a call tomorrow. Uh, I want the price so that uh the the administration and the council can make a decision with regard to what what pro which way we're going to proceed. Okay. All right. First thing tomorrow morning. Mr. President, I'll answer any questions
that the council may have. Any questions for administration? Reena. Eric. Um, about PSG. It says the gas replacement. You said Lincoln Wagner Road and Diamond Bridge and Yeah. And the and the railroad.
And the railroad. Didn't we just do work on Diamond ourselves about the about the galvanized pipe? We've done galvanized pipe in some of those areas. Yes. On Hawthorne Avenue in particular because we knew it was on our
our paving program. I don't remember whether we've done we've done galvanized pipe on and I think we have done a Diamond Bridge. They're not going to be working on Diamond Bridge. They're looking they'll be working on the streets. They will be working on Lincoln and Wagaraw, but they will not be
working on Diamond Bridge. Is it all of Lincoln or just certain spots? I think it's all of Lincoln at least down south south of Diamond Bridge. So, is there any way that we can as they open are we close to that water line to the
gas line? Is there any way that we could piggy back when they doing their The issue is in almost all cases they're on one side of the road and we're on the other we're on the other side of the road. So to piggy back really doesn't do anything for us. It isn't like they're and and
they have an obligation to pave curb to crown unless the road was repaved within the previous five years and then they have an obligation to pave curb to uh curb. There isn't any area that's been paved curb to curb in the last five
years. Wagner Reed uh Midland th those were paved six years ago. So they're just outside the uh window. So they're honoring our uh our our moratorum. Um but if they didn't honor it, they would be obligated to do
more repaving. Okay. Are they doing the mains or are they doing they're doing mains and then then new uh connecting the services to the house? New laterals. New laterals. Is it a requirement that all these that they need to do all new laterals to the houses? Well, it's it's all
high-pressure gas and they're use they're not sure what kind of pipe is there, whether it be plastic or or metal, but they are they're because of the high pressure gas, they're using the plastic pipe and then most of the time they they sleeve it from the road uh
into the house in the existing conduit, the gas pipe that's there. What do you do for properties that are on there that the gas is on the side street? Are those included? Well, if the gas is on the side street, they're only doing the ones that have service off of
the the streets in question. So, a lot of corner houses don't have that. Some corner houses may, you know, if they have service in Diamond Bridge Avenue and they're in the corner of Diamond Bridge and they're just not getting a high ser high pressure lines, right? At least not now. I mean, it's not part of this project.
Yeah. if we could just look over what they're doing and see where our water lines just see if we could piggy back if that's even I don't you know I mean well it's just an opportunity well if you're going to they're doing they're doing it in the
next two they're doing it in the next couple months but sometimes for us defining to into contract to do that would be well I'm just thinking about our inventory and if there's any way that we could okay we didn't take a look. But I'm to review and update our inventories. We
have to do that every year. Yeah. With our inventories. So, it's just streets that may be open that I'm just trying to help. They're not going to be open. The the chances of them being open on the same side that that uh that we need to work on are very small. But we can take a
look at it. If if there's an exception, maybe we can we can try to get in and do the uh um g the the uh water line before they repave. They probably will not be repaving until the spring. So, that will give us an opportunity if if that
situation exists. I I just doubt that it's going to exist in many cases. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um yes, Mayor, thank you for your report on the weight um weighted trucks on Fair
View and also the North Wong. Um I'm going to just say my personal experience. I've come down Ryav I don't know 15 times since we started this and I could probably say every single time someone's turning. Now I know we are not
going to be able to catch every single car that does this. No that's but but I I think I would like to hope that we could uh with the traffic division brainstorm maybe some additional ideas to improve the no left turns. The summons are great but you got
people nobody reads signs. No, they I I know that you got the sandwich board up there. It's blinking. It's It It's telling you that something's coming up. There's a sign right right where you get to the turn. People just they just make the turn like like it is never there.
They they uh there there's a lot of repeat uh tickets given to same people. Oh my god. You know, a couple of whenever, but the a lot of them are the same. The only one of the things that happened these last two weeks was the traffic had people on
vacation. Everybody will be back from vacation this coming Monday. So they'll be up to full staff. So they'll be doing Fair View, they'll be doing North Wong. And they're doing them sporadically. They're they're at different locations on North Wong. So this way some people
they they they're coming down Ray Avenue Extension. They stop, they look, they don't see a police car, then they turn. Right. if they see a police car, they go straight. You know, it's so they're going to they they may, you know, I I just think even beyond because even just trying to police it, you're not going to, you know, if you if you don't
have a police officer there, you're not going to catch everybody. So, if we could think of things outside the box that, you know, I know I've talked to you about one or two things prior, but maybe we need to just evaluate those. Yeah. In addition to what we're doing, I'll go over it with the uh lieutenant and sergeant. Right. Thank you. Have they looked at
putting the plastic horse blocking the entry into it like they do all the schools at the same time periods? Well, they don't do it in the afternoon. Actually, I I told them I asked them. I said, "Is it possible to get the delineators and and put him put him in
in the street?" And they said, "We'll try it, but they they go right over him." Is that a pointsc carrying violation? Uh, I don't I don't think it is to make a a left turn. We actually had an interesting discussion about it should
not be uh the way we have it scheduled. It should simply be a fine but not points. Um but we're going we have to wait and see what motor vehicles is going to interpret it as. It should not be points carrying them.
What about a violation? I'm sorry. It is a moving violation. It is a moving violation. It doesn't necessarily carry points. Maybe we should add the points and that might be a deterrent. Yeah, you know, we looked at it from Yeah, you look at it from the point of
view, I understand what we're trying to achieve, which is to stop the traffic, but then at the same time, how punitive do you want to be? Because in fairness, you know, speeding as for instance, carries points because it's also exceedingly dangerous. Whereas this turn
is a lot less dangerous than it is a quality of life issue. Yeah. It's more of a nuisance, right? But, uh, even even like I'm just thinking out outside my, uh, the box here. Even as they have red light cameras, there might be something that
we might be able to do with that. And people start getting, you know, you know, mail of uh, of tickets. Yeah, mail tickets are always problematic. Uh, you know, whether or not they're even enforcable. So, that that becomes an issue. I think
again what we're really looking at is we think over time people will educate themselves. It's never going to happen right away. Um you know it's like sticking your finger in the socket. You know usually once you do it once you don't do it again but some people
apparently need to do it. Apparently not in Hawthorne because we got repeat offenders. Yeah. But I mean again if we issue summones people will start to educate themselves. Any other questions? All right. Yes, Eric. When um public service does their
work and Basel over overlooking it, are we getting reimbured? SNG will pay have to pay the rather than pay a normal permit fee, they will they will reimburse us for the cost of Boswell's oversight. Thank you, Henry. Yes. So just to button up. So with
reference to the traffic issue on Fair View, what what is the traffic violation fine for the dump trucks that are violating our ordinance? What's their ticket? Because this that's a real safety issue. We understand the issue on Wong. I'm not negating that, but the safety issue on Fairview, what is their
ticket fine? Uh I don't have that with me. It was in what we put into the ordinance tonight. Um, but we made that more substantial. I think I think it should be as high as possible because for our res when we discussed it at our
committee meeting, it was probably around $200 or $300 a ticket. We tried to make it rather substantial. And again, to uh Councilman Sher's point, not only is there signs, there's the police trailer blinking and you know uh trucks are still
ignoring it. um this that's a tremendous safety issue. And so again, to uh Mr. Pasqual's point, the fine has to be substantial enough where they'll stop putting their finger in the socket and putting themselves and others at at life risk. That's a that's
a real safety issue. So, I know we're all focused on it, but um I guess my blood pressure is up and I wanted to just say my piece. I do have a couple questions, though. Um Anary, can I answer? Of course. One of when the police give a ticket to a truck, a lot of times they
they the truck pulls away with three, four or five tickets. It's not just one because then they they they give it for whatever motor vehicle infractions there are. Like for instance, there was one truck that they pulled over. The fella had a a license from Brazil.
Uh so that truck was towed. And you know, we're not looking to uh jail anybody. We're just looking to keep our road safe for the drivers, for our residents, and they have to follow the freaking rules. I I I thank you for that, sir. Um you know, I don't know
what more our uh police department can do, but Well, they're doing they're doing it literally everything that they and I I I know that certainly, and uh hopefully our residents can see it, but sadly, people will still put their finger in the socket. Very frustrating. So I just have one
question for you Michael with reference to the trilling property. No issue but my question to you is will this cure the meetats and bounds issue? Not for future for these two properties. Yes.
There are going to be other properties throughout town where these gaps and gores and overlaps exist. They exist all over the place. Um will it solve this problem? It will solve this problem which is our property and theirs. Terrific. Um, and Joe, would you just
repeat for me? You rattled some streets. I didn't get to write them down. Um, on the road program. Greenwood, I think you said Highland. Highest. Highest. When is that going to happen, sir? Um, they're starting construction next week.
Um, as far as the border of the roads, I couldn't tell you at this moment what's happen. Will there be a Nixl going out to the residents? Anybody? I I don't think there'll be a Nixl because except where we generally sit send Nixl where it applies to general
general motoring public. We generally don't do a Nixl if it affects the uh dozen or so people on the street, but we will know those residents will be notified. Well, you know, there may be a handful of people who park on the street and they're going to want to know, right? It
was wonderful with the revitalization program on Lafayette. All the businesses got a notice from Boswell, so they knew what to expect. They weren't shocked when it happened and they couldn't uh they had the opportunity to plan for alternative parking or to get into their offices. It was great. A little
information always goes a long way, right? All the residents will be notified both before the project starts and and and at any time when they actually have to close down the road or close down the parking that they get notice of that. Thank you so much. That's it.
Bruce Eric, a question for you on the water for Prospect Park and North Halen. Did they have POS free water? Because obviously we're supplying that now and I'm only thinking about our resin. We didn't count the replacement of the resin to be supplying other towns.
Um just curious how how we're getting reimbursed from I guess we're getting reimbured. We will we will they will be the the two utilities the two authorities will be uh um build for the water they take there. I mean there's no contamination of what
they might have to our water. No, I'm asking are we giving them free water when they currently what did they have? I know we're giving it Right now the Pacific Valley water has has levels of PAS that are below the current
DP maximum contaminant levels. They are above the the levels announced uh a year or so ago by the EPA. So yes, there are POS maybe like six parts per trillion or something like that. So yes, they do have POS. It is compliant with current
regulations. Um we're charging them for our water. We're not charging them for the cost of their water. They're we're char we will charge them for our water and our water is PF free water. No, I understand because we got to recoup the cost for our resin. Right. Okay. Okay. That's all they had.
Any other questions? That concludes the report from administration. Mr. President, can I have a motion to record the administrator? So moved. Motion by second by me. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Introduction of ordinances. We have none
this evening. Resolutions consent agenda R1 133-25 to 143-25. 133-25 is authorized land lease to AT&T new singular wireless at the municipal hall monopole. R134-25 is authorized
execution of a boundary and easement agreement with Trilling. R135-25 is authorized execution of a shared agreement with Rididgewood Water 2025 sales. R136-25 is authorized execution of municipal joint defense agreement with Montvail.
R137-25 is the band shell performance. Uh I guess five four number four fourth and final number four. R138-25 is MP performers for September through October 2025.
R139-25's construction administrative services for Boswell for the lead line replacement program phase 4. R140-25's NJIB funding application and design for Boswell for the leadline service
replacement program phase 5. R141-25 is the tax exempt status for veteran. R142-25 is taxexempt status for a veteran. and R143-25 is award of contract for the police scheduling software and extra duty management services. Have a motion.
So moved. Second. Motion by Skier. Second by me. Any discussion on any of the above? Discussion. Michael. Um just want to clarify R3625 is the
issue we have with affordable housing. Yes, that is it. To join the lawsuit. We are joining the lawsuit against it some good. Yeah. This follows up with the one you adopted last time which authorized the administration to look into it.
This is now authorizing us to sign up and join the fight. Perfect. Thank you. Just uh a question. The NPP performers for September and October when I looked at the resolution, do we know where they're going to be? Are they going to do everything at the library on the
farmers market? Do we know that? like the locations. I know they were doing like the pilot the pocket park last year and then the library. It just seemed that it was better at the library. So, I was just curious. It's at the library right now. It's at the library. At the library. Yes.
Correct. Okay. It's going to be all there. They're going to have Jefferson uh place blocked off. Closed off. Okay. Um and whatever food trucks they have will probably be on Jefferson Place. Okay. And uh they'll be blocked off. and every uh she's uh Nancy has uh I guess several
bands or you know uh entertainment. Do we do we have that schedule yet? Um we do. We'll uh Lisa putting putting them up on the website in the next day or two. Okay, great. Yep. It all squared away. Thanks. Thank you.
Anyone else? Roll call. Bennett, yes. Leosa, yes. Millie, yes. Sasso, yes. Skiara, yes. Matthews, yes. Motion carries. Reports of special committees. Mike, start your way.
Okay. We have a a very exciting report related to Hispanic Heritage. The uh the committee met last week and we are finalizing some exciting things for this year's event. Uh just to give you a rundown of some of the things that we're
going to have going on, we'll have a DJ playing all day. Um, and when he's not playing, we're going to have uh Peruvian folk dancers who have a an Ecuadorian band, a wood instrumentalist, and I heard them on YouTube. It's pretty
interesting. It's culture appropriated wood instrumentalist. Um, we're going to have a fair amount of contest, a Zumba contest, a um a world because this is going to happen during the World Cup. So, the family that brings the most um wears the most World Cup jerseys to the
event will get a prize and also a Zumba. I said a Zumba contest and an Hispanic culture poster contest. Uh so, we're pretty excited about that. There's going to be a bouncy house, piñatas, face painting, uh a temporary tattoos and
stickers, um food trucks, crafters. Um, and we just we just found out we're happy to report that our master ceremonies will be Flavio Romeo this year. And um, we have some other things that we are just trying to finalize. Uh,
like the high school band. Reason why we can't finalize it yet because they're not in school. So, as soon as they do, they they've come to every one of our events though, so we're pretty comfortable with that. Um, we are also um close to getting a mariachi band for our event. um a Puerto Rican bumba,
which is a percussionist. So, we're pretty uh we're pretty close on that one, too. And u the P County Park Rangers agreed to set up a tent for the Junior Ranger program for the kids. This is all a familyfriendly kids orientated
event. Um, and last but not least, uh, I'm not going to share the person's name, but we're pretty excited about a keynote speaker, a local, um, who, uh, is very interested in doing it. The person just has to check their schedule and they'll be happy to do the event and
hold a mini soccer clinic. So, if you know who Jorge Aosta, I cannot confirm or deny any of the above, but that's not it's not finalized with that because he's checking his schedule. Uh but we're pretty excited about some of the things we got going on and uh the event will be happening on
October 4th down at the band show uh grounds. Um and we're pretty excited. Thank you, Marina. I just want to announce the green fair will be at the farmers market um September 7th. Rain day is the 14th of
September. So that's just something before the next uh council meeting. Thanks, Bruce. Uh yes, Eric. Uh you said you wanted a public works committee meetings. You have a uh day in mind next week. Um
since we have all the public works committee here, I'll try to make it. You guys have a day that works. What time you want to do it? Earlier? Okay. Unlike uh the other two gentlemen on the
committee, I am a working man. I'm not retired or semi-retired or um I may have some some movement in my schedule. Um it's like 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Were you looking to do this for next week? Yeah.
Do you have a spec anybody have a specific day? As I'm looking at my calendar, we're asking the working man. Uh Monday looks good. Monday or as of right now, Monday or Wednesday? Okay. Is Monday good for you?
All right. Monday, 4:30. 4:35. What do you want, Mike? 4:30 is fine. Okay. 4:30. Done. Okay. Marie. Okay. Just to reiterate, but also to remind our residents that our ambulance
corps is having their annual fish fry. Um, tickets are $20. There is a chicken option. You don't have to have fish. It could not be easier. Pre- purchase your tickets, drive up, they give you your meal, and off you go. Um, and also true
to form, um, our volunteer ambulance corps is taking donations of water in any form so they can deliver to our neighbors who are in dire need. I I just as a resident myself cannot even imagine what these four towns are going through.
um day six almost seven with no running water in their homes. Um and again true to form our uh volunteers are stepping up and I know our residents are as well. So I encourage you to continue to do that. Once we have our fish uh fry the
tickets will go on sale for their annual beef steak orthon ambulance corp in September. I'll bother you about that. Then I have to talk about um our leadership camp which is just amazing and remind all of us myself included that this is um something that's special
to Horththornne. No other town does this and it cannot be possible without four very important organizations. Our police department, our board of education, municipal Alliance. Municipal Alliance. I'm reading
Wow. the state police, more than more than four actually, the police department, the state police, municipal alliance, mayor and administration, the parents, the state police. So many people are involved in making this amazing organ day week rather come come
to play for the kids. It's an amazing week for the kids and I will tell you I'm the biggest kid on the day that that helicopter lands on the playground. Um, I love it. The kids love it. It's a lot of hard work and they keep doing it. It helps your sixth grader who's going well
fifth grader metriculating into sixth grade feel comfortable coming out of fifth grade going into middle school having a mentor teaching them how to travel learning how to work a lock on a locker and just get some buddies. So I could not as a parent tell you how
wonderful it was. But as a big kid I may jump in that helicopter next year. I love it and I thank all of our departments who make it happen without asking for anything from our residents. It takes money to do it and all of these departments do it for the kids. So, I
really am so proud of them. Um, I also have to say how proud I am of our mayor administration for being good neighbors quietly as soon as they found out that yet another town was without water. And they didn't ask for help, but they stepped up and gave the help. So, I'm
I'm proud as a resident. I'm proud as a council person um that we always step up to help not only our our residents, but every resident who needs it. So, I I want all of you guys to know that we always help. That's what the cloth we
are with cut from. Um I'm proud to be part of this team and and I thank you for stepping up to help. Even though it may only be a drop in an Olympic size pool that we are contributing, it means something. So, I thank you for that. Um, and last but definitely not
least, I thank you again for putting me in a part of this team to roll out this new website with Lori and Lisa. They did so much work. Um, recreating a website that was a two-fold
um, our job was twofold. one to make it um easier on not only the residents. All questions could be answered hopefully at the website level but also fillable forms so that each of our department in
house could run easier when a resident came to with whatever that form was whether it be a permit or a registration. The purpose is to help all departments and residents work easier into together. I will tell you, I could not be more
proud and honored to work on a team with these two women who work their tushes off. The job is not done. We just rolled out. The kinks will be worked out. Residents have patience, but it's so amazing. Um, thank you for letting me work with you
ladies. Um, thank you. It's just great. So, well done. Well done. Thank you again, sir. Hey, Mike. Does the ambulance car have to serve coffee with the fish and chips to make the drive-thru pickup legal?
It's only 20 bucks. What do you want? Yeah, we're we're gonna allow this one. Uh but you know, next year we'll have to Oh, okay. Well, I have a question regarding something similar. Would they consider having at the band shell fish and chips while they listen to Filet of Soul?
Hey, that's a good, you know, they can make it a whole fish night. I like that. Yeah, once in a while. I like that. Eve with a fish sitting on that for like 20 minutes. Yeah, that's great. I like it. I like a hook. Couldn't wait to get it out. Huh,
Dominic. Wow. Go ahead. Follow that, Don. God, I just want to thank our public works department. When something goes wrong, you know when you have a good thing going. We have a great water department and I want to just thank them for a great job. And I can't, you know, say any more about the
the the website, you know, even though somebody took about a half hour to talk about it, but you did a great job. I really am doing a great job. And it was it's the first time we've done it in how many years, right? We've never had one. Took longer to explain it than the reason. Exactly.
She started asking seven years ago. I'm done, Bruce. Okay. Uh, well played. Farmers Market continues. Please come down and support the local marketers. Uh, the car show. I've been asked to hold up the car show. Zoom in, Lisa. Let
me know when she zooms in. The car show is this Sunday, August 17th, between 10 and 1:30. It's always packed. There'll be lots of food from the vendors, as well as uh a sausage truck from Primo. The annual fishing derby uh is scheduled
for the September 20th. Great guy runs that. And as Reena said, the green fair is the seventh. Seventh. Is the 7th. September 7th. Yep. Frank, I have a question for the mayor. Who when they sweep Grand Avenue, who's sweeping it? Are we sweeping it or
is the construction company doing it? The contractor's doing it. Okay. With his equipment and whatever else. Good. And it I told Joe Burn that there's not going to be one speck of dirt on that road. Otherwise, nobody's getting paid. I'm serious.
Yeah, I held up their check. You got to like it. I'm okay with that. Okay. So, anyway, the planning board I was in my committee meeting report. The planning board met uh last week and approved the second floor edition above
Diamond Liquors for two apartment units. And finally, I want to wish our burough attorney a happy birthday. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, I know you did. Well, thank you, Frank. I appreciate How many texts did you get from people up here? Um, don't throw me under the bus. I I won't tell you how many, but
Okay. Uh, three of you. Okay. Don't throw me under the bus. That's not So, I guess one wasn't you. Don't throw Frank. All right, let's move on. We have no correspondence, but we have bills. Have a motion to approve the bills and forward them to the treasurer for payment. So, moved.
Uh, motion by Scar, second by Mey. Any questions on the bills? I know you said there was one you're holding. Obviously the uh Yes, Mr. President. And then streetscape uh as well as the the Lafayette project. Yeah. And
well, it was both related to the same project. Correct. Yeah. Okay. But we're going to approve it until uh we make sure everything's done. Roll call. No. What? Go ahead. Motion on this.
Roll call. Bills. Roll call. Oh, I need a discussion. Motion. Yeah, we just had it. Okay. Do you have more discussion? No. On the bills? No. Yeah. I got a motion by Scara, a second by Emily. Okay.
He's screwed at me. Roll call, please. Skiara, abstain on Ridgewood Press. Yes. On all others. Sasso, yes. Millie, yes. Leosa, yes. Bennett, yes. Matthews, yes. Motion carries.
Public comment and open the meeting to the public. Anyone desires to be heard, come forward to the microphone and state your name. Come on forward. Preco flyer. Thank you. Kathy Sarapin, 148 North Wong. Uh on the
left turn on North, I can tell you that they're pulling them over like crazy and sometimes there's four and five and six cars lined up down north watch. The police can't keep up with it sometimes. The other good thing about it is that we've noticed that if someone
does make the left, the guy in back of them is on his horn beefing like you're not allowed to do that. Yeah. So the other people are getting mad when those people Okay, as far as the streetscape now I walk every day on Lafayette down up and down.
some sections are really kept really well and a lot of the businesses there's stuff all over the street and also now that we have this beautiful sidewalk maybe one suggestion I thought maybe we could put some more trash bins along the
road so that people can throw I noticed there's only a couple like in front of the food places so maybe we could do something like that but because I hate to see that all that work go to you know because already people I think are dumping their gum on the street and you know
sad. It's very sad. Need to power wash that frequently because I have gum spots everywhere. Yeah. I didn't think that many people were chewing gum anymore. So, okay, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Does anyone else wish to be heard? Seeing no one, I entertain a motion to
close the public portion of the meeting. So moved. Motion by Skira. Second. Second by Leosa. All in favor? I. Motion carries. The next council meeting is Wednesday, September 3rd at 7 p.m. Have a motion to adjurnn.
So move. Motion by Bennett, second by Sasso. All in favor? Motion carries. We adjourned. [Music]